New Yorker Electronics is to be a franchises distributor for Degson. “Founded in 1990, Degson is one of the largest manufacturers of terminal blocks and precision moulds in Asia – it currently produces more than one billion terminal blocks a year and sells to 90 countries,” according to the New Jersey-based distributor. “For New Yorker, the alliance means customer access ...

I have seen so many articles and videos on the ‘correct’ way to assemble the anti-backlash nuts on the various small cnc routers that are available for hobby use, particularly ‘1310’ units, and possibly their slightly larger ‘1419’ types cousins. And so many of the articles and videos are partially right, or even just wrong, and plenty of sources complain ...

Morris Chang, TSMC’s founding CEO, made a couple of cracks at the opening of TSMC’s global R&D HQ (pictured) in Hsinchu at the weekend. Chang related a warning tale from his TI days when the chairman recommended a book which dated the start of the decline of the Royal Navy from the completion of the Admiralty Building, reports SemiWiki Now ...

Panasonic has announced a demo kit for Wirepas mesh networking, builts around its PAN1780 Bluetooth 5 LE module, with has a Nordic Semi’s nRF52840 radio IC and an antenna. IoT software company Symbiotech, which already has Wirepas Mesh products, has provided the kit’s software, and Panasonic earlier teamed up with Wirepas to get the mesh network stack onto its module. ...

India is once again pitching for semiconductor investment after a string of prospective projects have fallen through. “India is becoming an excellent conductor for semiconductor investments,” said prime minister Narendra Modi (pictured) at the weekend, “the world needs a reliable supply chain. Who can be a more trusted partner than the world’s largest democracy?” Modi was speaking at SemiconIndia which held ...

Huawei  plans to fab 5G chips on a 7nm process at SMIC this year, reports the Nikkei. The chips are not expected to be in phones on the market until next year. Last year, SMIC used a 7nm process  to fab a  cryptocurrency mining chip for Bitmain Technologies. The 7nm process Huawei is using  is thought to be SMIC’s N+1 ...

Micron has begun sampling an 8-high 24GB HBM3 Gen2 memory with bandwidth greater than 1.2TB/s and pin speed over 9.2Gb/s.   It is built on Micron’s 1β (1-beta) DRAM process node, which allows a 24Gb DRAM die to be assembled into an 8-high cube within an industry-standard package dimension. A 12-high stack with 36GB capacity will begin sampling in Q1 ...

The robotic patents war is not over but disputes don’t have to reach court, writes Alexander Ford of Withers & Rogers, in the wake of the Ocado and AutoStore settlement. Following a three-year-long legal dispute over alleged patent infringement, Ocado and Norwegian robotic tech company, AutoStore, have reached an out-of-court settlement. But the robot patent war is far from being ...

Wars are always a good opportunity to make money – governments will spend any money to win them – and it riled me that people are making shed-loads of wonga from the Russian imbroglio but not me, Ed confides to his diary. Then, through an old chip industry mate, I found this one-man  East End import/export business which sold second ...

SolidRun is aiming at artificial intelligence with a fanless industrial computer that combines an octa-core AMD Ryzen 7840HS processor and three of Hailo’s Hailo-8 AI accelerators, each rated at 26Top/s. “An important feature of Hailo-8 AI accelerator and Hailo AI software suite is linear scaling of the inference performance simply by adding modules,” said Hailo product manager Dima Caplan. “SolidRun’s ...